Major General Romeo Caramat, head of the Philippine National Police's Northern Luzon Command (PNP NOLCOM), reportedly offered to reveal everything he knew about extrajudicial killings as part of the Duterte administration's drug war in exchange for being appointed PNP chief.
Co: Caramat tried to bribe speaker with drug war info in exchange for PNP chief post |ANC
This was claimed by National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Ricardo De Leon on Thursday (August 8) in response to Senator Ronald Dela Rosa's allegation that De Leon and House Speaker Martin Romualdez pressured certain police officials to testify against former President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Dela Rosa alleged that De Leon, Romualdez, former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and AKO Bicol Party-list Rep. Elizaldy Co held private meetings with some former and current police officials to convince them to implicate him and Duterte in human rights violations related to the war on drugs.
Besides Caramat, former police chief Oscar Albayalde, former National Police Commission (Napolcom) commissioner Edilberto Leonardo and former PNP intelligence chief Eleazar Mata, among others, have been asked to testify against Duterte and Dela Rosa.
